Journalist Mike Parry was left livid after he discussed the Rwanda bill on GB News.
It comes after Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resigned as deputy chairs of the Conservative Party after defying Rishi Sunak by backing right wing challenges to harden up his flagship Rwanda deportation bill.
60 Tory rebel MPs, including the former home secretary Suella Braverman and the former prime minister Liz Truss, backed the series of amendments tabled by the veteran Tory Sir Bill Cash and Robert Jenrick.
Reform UK leader and Tory MP had a heated conversation about the Rwanda bill earlier in the day and Mark Parry discussed their row with former Labour MP Stephen Pound and got angry as he discussed the bill.
Mike Parry argued that we should "just turn the boats around"
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He said: "We should have followed the Australian model, we should be able to push the boats back. When I see the former Australian PM, John Howard talking about the way they sorted it and got them offshore I think, 'why don't we do that?'
"They're saying [we can't do] it because if you push the boat back and it tips over, people fall in the water. There is no political will to get tough."
Former Labour MP Stephen Pound said: "The difference between us and Australia is that we haven't got a 1000 miles of water between the place where the immigrants are coming from.
"On the business about ships in the Channel, there is no way on God's green Earth that a ship could come up to a rigid inflatable boat and say 'we're going to pluck them off onto the ship'. The minute you did that they'd get a dagger and they'd stab the boat. They'd start to sink. Under the law of the sea, you have to rescue those people.
Former Labour MP Stephen Pound said that this wasn't possible
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Parry questioned: "What about the RNLI boats? Yeah. They're they're used like a taxi service."
To which the former Labour MP asked: "Are you saying they should turn around to go back to France?" And Mike Parry said: "Yes. Why not?"
He explained: "All the money we've spent trying to get the French to cooperate with us could surely include some facility at sea for the Royal National Life Institution to go back to France and not come here."
Pound said: "The RNLI have said repeatedly that they would not do that. They simply couldn't. That's a complete breach of their charity.
"We should be looking at where they're coming from in the first place.
The debate got very heated
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"Some of the ones who come here completely illegally could have a proper well-founded case for asylum and we could get them into this country working and paying tax.
"A lot of them should be put in the boot of a car and driven back to Tehran."
Parry responded: "Only this week, a French politician said that we are a soft touch. We've got a wonderfully developed welfare system and they take advantage of it.
"When are they going to get when you make Britain so attractive – people will come here."
